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The slave owners believed that, by secession, they could establish a republic, founded on slavery, with an ample field in Mexico and Central America for conquest and expansion.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “The slave owners believed that, by secession, they could establish a republic, founded on slavery, with an ample field…”
Editor's note · Context
Sherman describes the ambitions of slave owners to create a slave-based republic through secession.
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